If you know, or if any other FReeper knows, one paragraph states . . .
Other dimensions of the relationship were decided on during this visit and implemented in the months afterward. France agreed to sell Iraq $1.5 billion worth of weapons -- including the integrated air defense system that was destroyed by the United States in 1991, about 60 Mirage F1 fighter planes, surface-to-air missiles and advanced electronics. The Iraqis, for their part, agreed to sell France $70 million worth of oil.
Is the $70 million dollar figure a typo? Should it be $700 million? Or even higher?
The reason I ask is an investigative snoop-friend of mine is digging like a groundhog into Chirac's financial background doing research for a book. He's in Europe now rooting around. He sent me a cryptic email the other day saying he found something about an "extraordinary amount of money" that showed up "for Chirac's personal use in 1975" . . . which, I think is the time period we're talking about here, right? Anyhoo . . . he said something about an "alleged" and "curious" oil deal that might never have "really happened."
Anyone know anything about this? I've done the Google-search and all the things my simple mind can think of doing . . . and I've come up with zip.